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## Working with cheat sheets

Dimension Designer provides cheat sheets to guide you through some of its modeling processes. Each cheat sheet is designed to help you complete some task, and it lists the sequence of steps required to help you achieve that goal. As you progress from one step to the next, the cheat sheet will automatically launch the required tools for you. If there is a manual step in the process, the step will tell you to perform the task and click a button in the cheat sheet to move on to the next step. Also, relevant help information to guide you through a task is retrieved in a single click so that lengthy documentation searches will no longer be required.

### Launching a cheat sheet

There are two ways that cheat sheets can be accessed, on the Welcome page or launched from the Web Service Advisor view.

#### Accessing a cheat sheet from the Welcome page

When Dimension is first started, the Welcome page is displayed, on this page select

1. Build A Web Service: Overview
2. Build A Web Service: From Relational Data Source
3. Build A Web Service: From XSD
4. Build A Web Service: From WSDL.

#### Launching a cheat sheet from the Web Service Advisor view

1. To launch a cheat sheet from the Web Service Advisor view, open the Cheat Sheets sheets section on the bottom
2. Select desired cheat sheet .

The cheat sheet opens as a view. At any time, only one cheat sheet is open and active. When you launch a cheat sheet, any opened cheat sheet is closed before the new one is opened. The completion status of closed cheat sheet is saved.

The cheat sheet has a toolbar at the top right edge. These icons appear in the toolbar:

- Collapses all the expanded steps except the current step or expands steps to the last expanded state. Click to toggle between these two states.
- Allows you to select and open another cheat sheet. The completion status of the active cheat sheet is saved. Then, the active cheat sheet is closed and the selected cheat sheet is opened.
- Hides the cheat sheet.
- Restores the cheat sheet view to it's original size and position..

### Starting the cheat sheet

Each cheat sheet has a list of steps and it always begins with an Introduction step. When you launch a fresh cheat sheet, the Introduction step is expanded so that you can read a brief description of the cheat sheet. To start working with the cheat sheet, click Click to Begin in that step. The next step is expanded and highlighted. You should also see one or more actions buttons, such as Click to Perform in the highlighted step. You can now begin working through the tasks using the cheat sheet. At any time, the only highlighted step in the cheat sheet is the current step.

### Restarting the cheat sheet

Any time after starting a cheat sheet, you can restart from the first step by clicking Click to Restart in the Introduction step. If you have already created some artifacts, you will have to manually clean up the workspace before restarting the cheat sheet.

### Progressing through the steps

In the current step, when you click Click to Perform , a tool (which can be a wizard), will be launched and you will be required to work with that tool. When you finish working with that tool, the next step is automatically highlighted and it becomes the current step. When the current step is a manual task, you will need to perform the work and click Click to Complete to move to the next step. A check mark appears in the left margin of each completed step.

### Getting help information for tasks

To get step-by-step instructions for that step, click the help link in the step before you click Click to Perform , and the step-by-step instructions on how to work with that tool will be displayed in the Help window.

### Skipping a step

If a current step has a Click to Skip option , then it is an optional step. You must click Click to Skip to skip the current step, when you do, the step will have the skip mark in the left margin. If the task does not present Click to Skip, you must perform that step and you cannot skip it.

### Redoing a step

You can redo any step that you may have completed or skipped in the current cheat sheet. To redo the step, expand the step by clicking its expand icon and then clicking Click to Redo . After redoing a step, the cheat sheet will continue from the redo step.

### Closing the cheat sheet

When you finish the last step in a cheat sheet, it automatically restarts. You can also close the active cheat sheet by clicking the close icon (see below) in the cheat sheet's toolbar. The active cheat sheet saves its completion status when it is closed so that you can continue where you left off at a later time.

Related Topics

> Web Service Advisor View

> Getting Started with Metamatrix Dimension

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